Steven Knight’s boxing drama is anything but subtle

A Thousand Blows adds some narrative wrinkles to the story, but the Victorian-set boxing drama pulls direct inspiration from ...
There are moments in this story of pickpocketing and bare-knuckle boxing in the down and dirty East End of late-1800s London ...
Stephen Graham discusses A Thousand Blows, how his wife got Steven Knight to write the series, playing a boxer, and working ...
Knight has shared he’s fascinated by the Forty Elephants, the all-female gang that features at the heart of A Thousand Blows.
A combination of twisting streets, bad sanitation and the city’s poorest residents made for a potent stew – and was the home of the city’s spectacularly violent boxing scene.It’s also this world that ...